替死鬼
tì sǐ guǐ
Pinyin
Definition
替死鬼
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- scapegoat
- fall guy
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to die
- 2 impassable
- 3 uncrossable
- 4 inflexible
- 5 rigid
- 6 extremely
- 7 damned
- 1 ghost
- 2 demon
- 3 terrible
- 4 damnable
- 5 clever
- 6 sly
- 7 crafty
- 8 (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc)
- 9 one of the 28 constellations
- 1 to replace
- 2 alternately
- 3 in turn
- 1 to replace
- 2 to take the place of
- 1 to freeze to death
- 2 to die off in winter
Idioms (20)
不到黄河心不死
- 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
- 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
- 3 to keep going while some hope is left
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
不知死活
- 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
- 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
- 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
九死一生
- 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
- 2 new lease of life